Wrestling Thread 5: FKA The Viking Experience • Page 722

it was indeed lol

 

As long as it stops people talking about Poppy, I’m all for it.

 

Personally, I cannot wait for you to listen to something like Lipgloss or I Got It or Vroom Vroom

 

Me, before every single WWE PPV: "ALL MY LIFE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A GOOD TIME"

 

I was listening to last weeks episode of Marty and Sarah and they floated the idea of Cesaro vs Lesnar and damn I’d really like to see that

 

Yay! Glad to see other buddies on here.

 

really disappointed with the Bash at the beach set. I guess AEW decided to not make this a big deal, which is a mistake.

 

Yeah! They should be ON the beach

 

I read this as life alerting and had a lot of confusion

 

New AEW show will be an hour (taped at Dynamite, Dark isn’t going anywhere either)

 

So, three shows including Dark? They’re gonna need to start bolstering their roster and quickly.

 

For a company that just started, more content doesn't seem like the best of ideas

 

two one hour long shows isn't going to kill AEW, guys

 

Goddamn Marty.

 

Dark has been coming in at like a half hour the past few weeks. I can see them keeping it at that length along with adding the hour show. So really its only like a extra half hour of content.

 

“Sorry if I offended her or anyone else” Apologise for saying it, not for causing offence, dickhead

 

I’d love them to do BTE on TNT so we’d get those storytelling bits there, but I could also see them doing Dark only on TNT, and BTE could be on like Saturday mornings or something like the old WCW shows were.

 

from f4w

In a deal that will make the company profitable in 2020 and beyond, TNT, Warner Media, and AEW have renegotiated and signed a new four-year contract that would keep Dynamite on the station through the end of 2023.

The four-year deal is worth $175 million, just under $45 million per year, and includes TNT having an option for 2024 at a significantly increased price.

The deal would also include adding another hour of television later this year, which would be taped on Wednesdays but air on another night, likely on TNT but could be on another Turner station. Full details of the new show have not been worked out past an agreement to add a third hour.

When the new show launches, the Wednesday tapings would expand and also include matches taped for the streaming show Dark, which would not be going away. This means there will be four hours a week of the product, allowing more time to showcase more talent, which has been limited by the current format.

AEW President Tony Khan noted that starting AEW was the biggest financial gamble he had ever taken and that the deal has resulted in it paying off far sooner than originally projected.

"When we launched AEW one year ago, we wanted to start a revolution that would disrupt the wrestling business, but everyone said it would take a strong weekly television partner to make AEW real in the eyes of everyone -- above all the fans," said Khan. "What virtually no one realized at the time was Kevin Reilly and TNT were committed to this very same movement from Day One, and their belief in us made it possible for AEW to think and act big from the start. Here we are, only three months into Wednesday Night Dynamite and now we've been extended through 2023! We're now making the ultimate statement that the team of AEW and TNT is here to stay to bring fans more of the great wrestling that the fans demand and deserve."

"When Tony Khan first shared with me his idea of starting a new wrestling league, I was impressed with his audacity to go up against a contender that has been the only game in town for 20 years, and ultimately believed that together we could bring his vision of a new, authentic, gritty product to bear," said Reilly. "The fans have spoken and after only three months, we have seen AEW shake up the wrestling world and this will only continue as we build upon this momentum."

Since its inception in October, AEW has skewed the youngest of any pro wrestling show on television as well as the highest in viewers per home, meaning more family and friends watch the show in groups than any other show.

 

We've got sand!

 

It's still crazy to see them posting about this.

 

I wonder if this deal extension makes AEW an even more attractive destination for wrestlers. Like, if Person X feared going to aew before, he now might be more courageous..

Sorry for weirdly putting this..my English fails me from time to time

 

There's def more guaranteed stability now